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Stories (translated from French)

         I am an occupational therapist and my job consists in making the life of my patient easier by providing them, among other, assistance tools. Consequently, PapooSwitch is a great device that is able to serve the patient in his daily life. I noticed real improvements and in general, the patients get even more self-confident. PapooSwitch is definitely a useful therapeutic device providing a tangible support to the person who’s using it.

Céline, occupational therapist

         My patients enjoy this external switch because it is useful at several levels. My role is to harmonize their life with their environment and PapooSwitch goes completely in the framework of the personal life project elaborated with them. It enables to develop the daily independence and makes it easier to use computers, devices used by everyone nowadays. It’s extremely important for a disabled person to feel good within his environment and to profit from it as if he would do if the situation was different. As a consequence, PapooSwitch meets our mutual expectations: be more independent.

Nathalie, occupational therapist

         I am quadriplegic after I had a bike accident. First off, I’ve been confined to bed for 4 months to participate in a rehabilitation program and then I’ve been allowed to use a wheelchair. But it was still hard for me to move my hand on a switch. I asked my occupational therapist if she couldn’t find a way to make things easier. A couple of days afterwards, she came back with the PapooSwitch and it was definitely easier to activate it compared to the others I tested before. I just have to bring my arm close to the Papoo switch and my wheelchair moves forwards. Now, I’m more independent, more self-confident and I can go wherever I want to.

Claude, user of PapooSwitch since march 2009

         I had a CVA one year ago and since then, I am restricted to lying down 24h/24 in a hospital bed. I’m completely paralyzed, only my head can move. I can talk with my family, and when they’re here with me, they take good care of me. But when they’re gone and that I have to call the nurse, that’s another story. Consequently, I feel more and more lonely because I’m not able to press the nurse call and I don’t want to bother people anyway. I talked to my daughter about that and one day she came back with a kind of big button that she found on the net and that looked like a nurse call. Helped by the nurse, she fixed it on my bed, near my head. The good point is that I don’t have to make huge efforts to make it work, I just have to bring my temple near the PapooSwitch. After that, it gets activated by itself and a nurse comes and gives me what I need. I feel less lonely and my situation is definitely more comfortable.

Marie-Thérèse, user of PapooSwitch since june 2009

         I’ve been using a wheelchair for more than 20 years, so I’m pretty used to it! But I always welcome any kind of help and actually, I’m always looking for making my life easier. Therefore, PapooSwitch offers me a substantial help I really enjoy. In a way, I don’t really need a switch to move my wheelchair since I can use both of my arms. But I fixed it on my armrest so that I’m able to move and to do something else at the same time, like giving a call for instance. It is also cute and tiny, two other reasons to love it.

Béatrice, user of PapooSwitch since september 2009